Crone: Women Coming of Age publishes twice yearly; all submissions are considered for the next available issue. Specific deadlines apply to columnists, features, and interviews, please contact the editor for more information. We prefer submissions via email, as attachments in txt, rtf, or doc format to editor2@bbimedia.com. You may also submit via mail to: Crone Magazine, P. O. Box 687, Forest Grove, OR 97116.
Submissions must include an author's bio and full contact information in the body of the manuscript in order to be considered. Crone is not currently a paying market, however all contributors will receive a complimentary copy of the issue in which their article appears.
Subject Matter
All submissions need to focus on the lives and issues of women of crone age (49+) and/or the Crone archetype itself. Each issue is composed of several features, one or two interviews, contributions to a number of departments (see below) and a variety on ongoing columns.
We especially welcome submissions to the following departments:
Crone Poetry
Editor Katherine West, Department Head
Crone Poetry is dedicated to offering readers a broad spectrum of poetry by and about women of the wisdom years. We also welcome the airing of literary ideas and concerns with Poetic Thoughts, a series of short articles on contemporary poetry.
Loss and Transformation
Maggie Fenton. Department Head
As we enter our Crone years, we leave behind the innocence of Maiden and Mother to encounter the fullness of life’s eternal recycling. Our parents die. We learn that some of our friends or family face serious illness and some succumb to the great mystery. Some of us deal with unspeakable tragedy. We face our own frailty as the body refuses to spring back from injury or sickness as it did in our youth. The challenge is not if we will be touched by loss but how. For some, loss is an invitation to explore what it means to be alive. Those who choose to take this journey often find themselves transformed by it. In this section, we will hear accounts of some of these travels.
Crone Lives
P. L. Corcoran, Department Head
Welcome Home. We are the stories we tell each other. As editor of the Crone Lives section I welcome your contribution. This is an opportunity to offer up specific experiences of daily lives. Where do you call home? Are you continuing a pattern started as a younger woman or branching out in a completely new direction? What wisdom can you offer as a result of your lifestyle choices?
Need support through the crone living process and have questions you’d like answered? Want to recommend or write a story about yourself, a dear friend or a heroine? Are you a little hesitant about how to craft an article? Email editor@cronemagazine.com or write to Crone, P.O. Box 687, Forest Grove, OR 97116 to share your stories.
Crone Encounters
Jackie Sachen Turner, Department Head
As we grow and change throughout the years, we receive wisdom, guidance, and insight from our elders through spiritual epiphanies and in meaningful stories. I invite you to pull from these happenings as you awaken to and become the living archetype of the Crone.
Crone Circles
Jean Stein, Department Head
Crone Circles are created to bring women together. Imagine a circle of women laughing from their bellies or singing their spirits. Imagine yourself in a circle of women or remember a group that has special meaning to you. How can we spread the magic of crone circles? Please send in your stories of crone circle experiences. We want to share the ways that crone circles begin and how they thrive. We want to connect readers to local groups of women to expand their circles. Do you have photos of your circle to share? Do you have suggestions for beginning a circle?
Crone Pilgrimage
Vita Laume, Department Head
In this department, I invite you to share with us your sacred journeys, actual or symbolic, in which you follow your quest to your very own sacred ground. It is the naming of a moment — or a long labyrinth’s walk — where we take the courage to find words to describe what is holy in our hearts.
Submissions should be “snippets” (a few paragraphs) about when you find yourself standing on your own holy ground — an attempt to put into words that transformative aspect, the surprise and the joy, the reverence and the awe. By naming what is sacred to us, we will bear gifts to each other, and enter the Crone.
Crone Eyes (Book and product reviews)
Ann Kreilkamp, Editor
Crone Eyes invites your review of books, music, media and products that have significance to women 49 and up. Works written by women of Crone age are also welcome for review if their theme/content is of special interest to our audience. If you'd like to receive material for review, contact the editor (see above.)
Crone Correspondence (Letters to the editor)
Ann Kreilkamp, Editor
Do you love what we've done in a recent issue? Hate it? Want to suggest a topic of discussion or ideas for future issues. Please write to Ann Kreilkamp with your kudos, brickbats, suggestions, ideas or musings at the address given above.
